56 - The Syllable KU : Origins of Writing in Western Civilization and the Kaulins Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (MinAegCon™): A Syllabic Grid of Mycenaean Greek Linear B Script, the Cypriot Syllabary, the Phaistos Disk, two Old Elamite Scripts, the Inscription on the Axe of Arkalochori, and Comparable Signs from Sumerian Pictographs and Egyptian Hieroglyphs

This is the 56th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable KU in the Syllabic Grid. Each syllable is presented in its own posting.

There is first a scan of a "syllabic" table excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.

That image is followed by the original text -- the links there are clickable -- but you can not see the Aegean Fonts or images embedded in Microsoft Word, as these do not resolve in Blogger, so you will see some "filler" material. After I get all the syllables online, I will clean up the individual pages by making images of the various signs and uploading them to eliminate the current text resolution deficiencies, but it is a massive amount of tedious extra graphics work, so I am not doing it right now, as it is not essential for online purposes. One can see the full grid for the syllable on the scanned image.

The Syllable KU in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

KU κορμός trimmed "trunk of a tree (with the boughs cut off) κῆπος , “garden, cultivated area” The common concept here seems to be land cleared for agriculture” and use of the land for planting or the resulting stumps for furniture. Very speculative for Linear B if the sign is not a chair: maybe here someone thought to place youth and age abstracted side by side as a cane right, and left pregnancy with foetus? κυλλόω "crook, flex" κυμάς "pregnant woman"

Cypriot syllabary 𐠍 KO a stump chair Thumb of stump chair image clip at Kingdom of Style

Linear B 𐀓(81) KU Tree trunk as a chair ? Thumb of stump chair at Bayard Cutting Aboreteum

Phaistos Disk 𐇥 KU κορμός "trunk of a tree (with the boughs cut off) _______ Indo- European e.g Latvian KOKS Lith. kuokas “wood”

Axe of Arkalochori 󿼈or󿼁 Variants of a plant sign, one also with roots (they could be 2 different signs) κῆπος “garden, orchard, plantation, cultivated area” __________ Tree trunks. Image at Sago Decor in Greece

No Elamite sign yet _______ Note that a field for planting is tied in concept with land cleared of tree stumps. Egyptian (archaic) K3NW “garden” K3NY “gardener”

Sumerian KUR3 (Jaritz #013) “cut” KIRI6 KI+RU5 (Jaritz #812+#786) “orchard, plantation” (note some similarity of RU5 with 2nd Axe variant)